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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-10

Oats are said by scientist who h az
brought his battery to bear on a horse,
to have an exciting power. The effects
on the nerves and muscles were tested
after eating oats aud compared with
their excitability before eating. Old
horsemen know that oats will make q
horse more lively or active than any
other grain. They contain nerve and
muscle food. or the elements to supply
the wear and waste of these parts,
and no doubt they stimulate them also.
They contain, according to this author
ity nitrogenized substance peculiar
to themselves. All oats contain this
peculiar property, but the black
oats have the most. When
oats are ground the exciting effect is
reduced in strength and duration. but
its effects are more active. This
peculiar substance is called avenine.
The soil where oats are grown makes a
difference in the amount of avenine
produced. Further investigation must
be made to determine the kind of soil
best adapted to produce the nerve
power Of the oats. This is getting
farming down to fine point Here is
an opening for the jockeys. If they
had the secret and could select their
oats. how they might skip by the other
fellows who thought one oat was as
good as another. The weight of the
meat of the oat does not make the diff
ference. as the substance is just UNDER
meath the skin and not apparent with
out analysis. Form Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-10
Poultry Raising for Profit.

A Nashville (Tenn.) correspondent
of the Poultry Record thus relates his
experience in endeavoring to raise
poultry and at the same time realize
something for his outlay aud trouble:
! have been working, in a quiet way.
for four or five years trying to cnn-
Vince myself that there is money in
fowls where they are kept for their
eggs only. The question of profits in
boilers iryers. etc. have never tried
to solve to any great extent My first
effort. several years ago, was with or
binary mongrels. Their yearly aver.
age for flock of Is hens. was ~ eggs
each. / kept them in comparative con-
finement and bought all they consum-
ed. and it cost me cents . month, or
" cents q year each to feed them. so.
reckoning eggs at a cent each the year
round. 1 came out justeven. not count
Ing loss of time and poultry house.
Then ! tried Partridge Cochins. and
they laid me So eggs year each and
ats about the same as the mongrels.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-10

I made money with them because I
sold their eggs and chickens at
fancy prices. but If / had sold their
eggs at market price, should have
made only about "a cents a year from
each hen. Plymouth Rocks made a
record of 118 eggs annually, which
was considerably better. At the same
time had a pen of Brown Leghorns.
They laid an average of 156 eggs and
consumed 60 cents each annually,
leaving me nearly dollar profit per
hen in twelve months. then shipped
eggs to my brother on farm in Mis-.
souri,. from which he raised several
dozen pullets and a fair lot of cock
erela He kept strict account, and the
following year demonstrated the fact
that he could keep Brown Leghorns in
fine condition on the farm at a cost of
AZ cents each annually, while their
egg output increased to 165 per hen,
leaving profit of $1.17 per head,
counting each egg cent winter and
summer. Lately. however. we have
been able to engage our eggs in sum-
mer at IL cents a dozen, selling at
other seasons for much better price,"
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Effects Of Light and Air on Dairy
Products.

A scientific writer says that if we
boil milk and Immediately inclose it in
an air-tight vessel it will remain sweet
for years. but it will sour when re-
exposed to the air at sixty degrees
Fair. and upwards If we freeze it
and keep it frozen it will remain sweet
as long as we like. but when it comes
to thaw the effect of freezing is 10
hasten decomposition. This. indeed.
holds good with butter and fresh vege-
tables, with any perishable article. in
fact 1t is their mechanical combine
ton which the freezing has interfered
with, and this is an aid to chemical
decay.
The effect of strong ray Of light
falling on milk is to develop the fer
incentive organisms that lead to the
decomposition of the liquid. They are
of vegetable character, and need
light as well as warmth to enable them
to thoroughly do their work. 1t is.
therefore. expedient to keep milk in
the shade, not necessarily in dark
room, but away from the light of a
window. Butter and eggs. too, are in
jured, though less quickly, by a strong
light and they should not be exposed
to its influence. = Western RurGl.
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SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
The Tobacco Crop.

News concerning the tobacco crop is
OF interest to some of our readers A
Cincinnati paper refers to the expecta-
ton of a limited crop on account of the
drought and the supposed curtailment
OF acreage. ltsays that dealers in leaf
tobacco have taken advantage of this
situation. and have readily been able
to work up ''boom" in values of the
old stock, which has mostly left the
hands Of the growers. In the July re-
port OF the Department of Agriculture
there was an indicated reduction of Ia
per cent in the acreage this season COM
pared with last year-Virginia being
reported at rs. Kentucky 78. North
Carolina 80, Connecticut, Ohio and
Illinois IS. Missouri and West Vir-
ginia go Indiana 90, Tennessee. Wis
consin and Massachusetts, 95. Arkan-
sas and Pennsylvania SO. Maryland
and New York &c. The estimates of
area were undoubtedly based partly
on expected planting, which to more
or less extent was interfered with by
the unfavorably dry weather. so that
later reports of the department may
be expected to show a smaller area
than originally indicated. In the
meantime men in tho trade have pro-
mulgated estimates. cutting the area
down to about half that of last
year. Inasmuch as these
exhibits have emanated from
parties interested, there is some mar
gin for inference that they are not
wholly impartial That large reduc-
ton has occurred is evident and that
much of tho crop has had serious
drawbacks from the unfavorableness
OF tie season is also quite true.
The later estimates and indications
in regard to area in tobacco this season
have suggested SO much greater reduc-
ton than the first of July information
OF the Department of Agriculture that
severe language has been offered
through various public channels con-
corning the statistician, under whose
supervisionsthis official work is done.
1t is proper that any shortcomings in
the service of the department should
be oyerhauled and shown up. but in
considerate. loose and extravagant talk,
evidently designed to promote the in
tcrest of parties immediately concerned
IN the effects of an exaggerated view
of matters. is without reason and in
very bad taste.
The crops Of tobacco in the United
States for ten years ending with 1885.
and the estimated farm value. have
been reported by the Department of
Agriculture MS follows:
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BEGGING FOR STAMPS.
u New York Dead-Beat Tells His Mo.ie
Of Getting a Livelihood.

= New York Dead-Beat Tells His Mole
Of Getting y Livelihood.
Tnere was young man stopping at a
West side lodging-house until recently
who, according to the New York Nail and
Express, paid fer his bed every night with
postage stamps. He had practiced this
about a week or more when the proprietor
grew suspicious. With q view to finding
out just where the fellow got the stamps,
the hotel man had him watched and dis
covered that hi lodger not only paid for
his bed with the little brown squares, but
that he ate at several restaurants where
the proprietors accepted the stamps
In payment. After watching
his lodger for several days,
and discovering nothing that could explain
his possession Of so many postage stamps,
the hotel man refused one night to accept
them in payment for a bed unless the man
could satisfy him that they were not
stolen. The lodger demurred for awhile,
and refused to talk about the matter.
Then the hotel man threatened to hand
him over to the police, whereupon the
iodger, after swearing his landlord to So
crecy, said:
81 am beggar. live on a revenue de-
rived from begging for postage stamps. I
began by working the First ward, and am
now doing Eighth avenue. / hate to give
the scheme away, for it is good ons and
Is profitable. manage to keep my.
self looking clean and neat, though
a triae threadbare, and with q letter
in my hand, ask each available per-
son for a stamp. refuse money always,
although gentlemen sometimes 90 with me
to the nearest drug store and buy me the
stamp. Occasionally get two and three
stamps. When get together two or three
dollars worth l take them to q dealer
down town who buys them from me at q
discount; but never pay out this money
If can help it. Whenever can get
restaurant and lodging-house keepers to
accept stamps for my meals and bed. In
this way save the discount. But now as
you know my game, l shall have to seek
fields more green and pastures new. Good
night. I guess I'll try Brooklyn for
awhile"
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HERE AND THERE.

-Watermelons have been more
numerous and cheaper in Tennessee
than ever known before.
Most of the farm work in Southern
States is done by mules This leaves
horses free to run races at agricultural
fairs. where racing is the most promi-
nent feature. IN O. Picayune.
TO give gloss to the plumage Of
fowls intended for exhibition, feed
hemp seed or sun-flower seed; hand
full to every six fowls, once a day, is
plenty.
If you keep Leghorns. Hamburgs,
or any Of the smaller varieties Of
fowls, feed them all they will eat; but
if you have Brahmas or Cochins. be
careful of overlooking.
indications are that potatoes will
bring high price long before spring.
They are scarce at seventy cents per
bushel in car lots at St. Louis already.
Two dollars per barrel at wholesale
rates in New York City is already q
frequent quotation. Prices are high
in the local markets of towns of this
State. = Mic higan Farmer.
1t pays the beginner to Gull his
poultry closely. 1t is far better to re-
duce flock down to even five females
and have them first-class than to have
ten with half of them very Indifferent
specimens. With judicious culling
and proper mating It requires but a
few seasons to bring the stock up to
high grade. Breed only the best even
If the number is few.
"A correspondent writes from
Henry County, Tenn. that he has q
COW twenty-four years old. has had no
calf in ten years; has been allowed to
go dry two different times. but brought
back 10 milk in the spring. She is
now the finest and healthiest looking
cow in this country and giving one and
q half gallons OF milk daily. Ny
father and mother commenced house,
keeping thirty-five years ago with her
grandmother. Farmers Home Jaxr.
nal
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When the late Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., was .
boy he went to sea. The commander of the
ship had literary turn Of mind, and put
In the spare hours Of one crdise in writing
a sea story. One day he came upon deck
and, looking down upon group of sea-
men, sung out: ''Has any one got PEN
knife?" 81 have. sir" replied young Cobb,
stepping forward. "Can you make quill
pens!" eyes, SIR" "What did you do
before you shipped in the navy?" 81 was
in printing Office, sir.n "You are just
the one am looking for. Come with me-"
Young Cobb was taken into the cabin and
made private secretary, but long before
be had finished copying and arranging the
captains manuscript he concluded that he
could write better story himself and tried
II
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The crop for 1886 was something
under 500. 600 900 pounds on an area
of about 725.0)o acres Statisiician
J. R Dodge. of the Department of
Agriculture, Washington. says the to-
bacco growers received so small COM
pensation for their laborlast year that
they have greatly curtailed produce
ton. Their product is in the hands of
dealers who are now making hay
while the sun shines in tobacco boom,
by which they hope to clear out at
double rates their overburdened ware
houses. fill orders for a large part of
next years consumption. and then
scoop in the cured tobacco of the COM
ing crop next winter and spring at
much lower rates than they are hop
ing to sell their surplus for. This is
the animus of wild estimates of next
to no tobacco crop in 1887 which are
now in vogue. Before Christmas to-
bacco spectators will see new light;
there will be a larger area than they
thought, and the yield will be beyond
expectation, and the market will
be dull, and consumers sup
piled, and the whole situation
changed so that growers will be offered
only moderate advance on the last
years rates. The present boom does
not interest farmers. 1t is for the
trade. and 1t will be six or eight
months before the farmers will market
their new crop. On the LIST of July
the average stock on hand in all West
ern markets for five years. 1881 1885.
was about $4,000 hogsheads. The
July average for the last two years,
1886 and 1887. was over 1900 hogs
heads, fully double. That explains
the reduced area on the part of the
farmers and of a desperate effort to cor
ner prices and get rid of the surplus
on the part of the dealers. The re-
ceipts the last three years, from JAM
uary to July. have averaged 1874 600
hogsheads. against ITO. 600 for the four
previous years. = Western Rarai.
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An Englishwoman is about to start IA
School for Wives" The pupils will be
instructed in cookery, dress making,
physiology, bookkeeping, elocution and
debating. The curriculum has its good
points, but the class in debating seems
TO be superiority. As a means Of matri-
monial felicity debating arility is not a
success. 1t has been said that that is the
happiest nation which has no history. It
may as truly be asserted that that Is the
bappiest family which las no debatesL
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Everybody has heard Of "horse laugh"
but who has ever seen an equine gifted with
che power Of speechl Such an animal would
be pronounced q miracle; but so would tho
hundred years ago. Why, even very re-
Gently cure for consumption would have
been looked upon as miraculous, but now
people are beginning to realize that the dis
ease is not incurable. DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery will cure it, IL taken in
time. This worfd-renowned remedy will
not make new lungs, but it will restore dis
eased ones to q healthy state when all other
means have failed. Thousands can CRATE
fully testify TO this. All druggists.
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death Ron Of the Civil war.

Official statistics show that of the 3,000,-
900 men enlisted, there were killed in bat.
tie, 4,2as; died Of wounds, 1906; died Of
disease, s6,2l6; died of unknown causes,
A,1s4; total, 300, TAB. This includes only
those whose death while in the army had
been actually proven. To this number
should be added, first, $4,000 men who are
known to have died while in the hands Of
the enemy as prisoners OF war, and many
others in the same manner whose deaths
ere unrecorded.
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The treatment Of many shousands Of casss
Of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
Hoss sn4 sa1s e sss 4 ba sss e
ing and thoroughly tsstins re@ediss Tor Is
o Dr. q PS s1essss s s4s:srspson
valuable experience. Thounnds Of te1tamo-
c rSo srs rs sd s7' aae aS" !s
vated and obstinate cases. which had bafied
their skil prove Z e b TIE INC mot wcnderfu
ss, evco 1H s ~ ~ n SdIs -
"cure-sIl," but q . most perfect SPECIFIC fos
WoEnan's peculiar eilmeuts-
). A : powcrlals inviGorailng tonies
and Is the yosn6 and q spPendss. g
kan:dCxn. dssiiissssd ! ss:ShsS !. ?:!!Rlinsss
eeneraily, DE-. Rierce's fsvorite PERCEPTION
= the Sssts,s se pcc S Being S'1sqs';se
nerv;n sseis sVosts rs Fses ss5ss ans
q,,aled md !. invalusb,s T. allaytns snd sub.
hausfion, prostrafion, hysteria, Spams ana
other distressing, nerv0us symptoms COM
monty attendant 3S CgS1 fppctsSnci :pd Srssnss
sleep and relieves mental anxtety and d
.Y -: $ls.s.,s 1sveri.s .rsssr.psae.
Compounded by an experienced and skillfm
physician, and adapted to womanis delicate
orsanizatlon- y 2 purely yegeteble q e
eecsS Is any so coondis;oS & IS sysssm. ros
morning Sickness OF NAUSEA from whafeycs
cause arising, weak stomach indigestion, dya
does, win prove very beneficial
"Fav0fite RresoriPSiOn0 f. . posls
tive euro for the most complicated and Oh.
sttnate cases OF Icucorrhea. excessive flowing.
painful men9truoton. unnatural Guppreanion6
Prolapeus. or falling OF the womb, weak back.
female weakness" auteversion, fetrovcrBion
bearing-down sensations, chronic cougeetdon,
Summation. pain and tendefness IN ovsriee
accompanied with "internal heak."
AZ regulator and promoter Of .funos
sfSood q s1as cs g ssi5s
sription +" = perfectly safe remedial AGENT
and can produce only good reeulta Il =
equally emcacdoue and valuable in IT. e6ects
mente incident TO that later and most critical
period. known = The Change Of Life"
"EavOrtto RreScRiPttOn,Sw when taken
Golden Medical Discovery, and small iaxafive
doses Of Dr. Ptorce'e PufEatIvo Pellets Little
Liver Pull cures Li3er. kidney and BLADDER
Blood sn snG oSobes ne sso r
scr2fulous humors from the system
Revorieo Prescription = tie only
medicine for women. sold b. druggistk under
fsctursr tSst vi Svs ss S% ,ni i % eSes5
case, or money VIII BE- refunded This guarnn.
tee hes been printed on to botfie-wrappss,
I.!ss as ScSs 5I Sl SSse1y q zs six
For Srss. illSsisss:d Treatise on Diseases Il
o w0@f e ssm Pss sSss '''d n
WMid's D|spoDsay mod|eaI Associates,
o6S Main g., BUrRALOs y. Z.
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Do you know what oftentimes awaits you
II unfinished with medicinal protection
You can not safely live on newly cleared,
water sodden soil ON the banks of low lying
streams, unless you are prepared to en-
counter malaria Take with you, or send
for, Hostette-'s Stomach Bitters, provided
with which you Can not only bid defiance to
miasma-born diseases, but also to affections
of the stomach, liver, bowels anu kidneys.
1t also nullifies the effects of exposure to
dampness and fatigue.
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OLD pill boxes are spread over the land by
the thousands after having been emptied by
ening, disgusting medicine the poor stomach
has to contend with. Too much strong medi-
cine Prickly Ash Bitters is rapidly and
surely taking the place of all this class of
drugs, and in curing all the Ills arising from
disordered condition Of the liver, kidneys,
stomach and bowels.
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SOME men are paid to get OF their base
They belong to quartettea II ttsbsrgh
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WHEN your toes are asleep they are coma
tose-iSt. Paul Herald
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DoS'r disgust everybody by hawking,
blowing and splitting, but use DR.. Eage's
Catarrh Remedy and be cured.
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WHAT word may be pronounced quicker
by adding syllable to it.-Quick
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BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. Soc
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As CEAREs the tiger ou his foes,
Hemined in by hunters, spears and bown,
And. ere he bounds upon the ring.
Selects tho object of his sprjno

So disease, in myriad forms, fastens its
fangs upon the human race. Ladies who
suffer from distressing ailments peculiar to
their sex, should use DIR. Piercess Favorite
Prescription. 1t IS a positive cure for the
most complicated and obstinate cases of
leucorrhea, excess.se flowing, painful men,
situation, unnatural suppressions, prolap-
sus, or falling of the womb, weak back,
"fcmale weakness" anteversion, retriever
sion, bearing down sensations, chronic con-
gestion, Inflammation and liberation of the
womb, inflammation, pain and tenderness in
ovaries, accompanied with " internal heat. !"
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The wife who carries on her husbands
pawnshop after bis decease is truly loan
widder. - WaJtingtoa Critic.
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THE tug is the only thing that has its tows
behind
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TIE oldest female in town i Aunt Iquity.
-Goodaus Sus.
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A NICE cheap country seat-a stump.
zszas SJainas.
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IT IL only natural, we suppose, that Z
tiller of the soil should dress in . seedy
manner.
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TIE attractive girl is the one that car
magnet-eyes fellow.--Dulsth Photographer
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NATURALLY . little yeller-a Chined
baby.-Norristown Herald
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THE fastest leg is Thought to be the to.
leg -ram-- Waterloo Observer.
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NATURES most becoming dress-the closs
Of the day.
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A BULLDOG acts as an air-brake when
ruthlessIy breaks in upon an air that q sel
enader Is singing -Ttzas S1ffngs.
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A PRETTY woman is like mustard plas-
ter Sac absorbs all mans attention
Eustss Lake ReJios.
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FRAZER AXLE GREASE will last two weeks,
all others two to three days. Try it.
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No STRANGER should visit the city without
smoking "a Tansills Punch &C. Cigar.
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SHOCKING affairs galvanic battery.-C7
eago Sunday National
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MEN of note"-those whose faces you ses
on greenbacks
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driver-"You can't be too car-full. - szs,
SUfings
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a HOTEL waiter may talk sense. Jet think
do1an-HotA 1Gx
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WHAT IL the difference between an auction
and seasicknessy One Is . sale of effects
and the other the effect Of . sail
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Our on first-a broken engagement Bur
lhsgtos Free Press
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Az, THAT TwINGEl You're rheumatic.
Sock relief from Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair aud Whisker Dye, SOC. The best
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WHEN an elephant has cold his voice IL
apt to get tusky.
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'How 10 be happy, though mazzied~-
Get along without . hired girl -Svrsexss
Ler0ld.